How to enable or disable Windows error reporting. WER in Windows 10, windows Error reporting or WER is a built-in diagnostic feature on Windows 10 that automatically collects, and depending on your settings, may send error data to Microsoft when applications crash or system components fail. Let's walk through how it works and how to configure it. Before we begin, be sure to subscribe to Ninja One's IT Video Hub and our YouTube channel for more tech content like this. A quick overview of Windows Air reporting. W-E-R-W-E-R is a diagnostic feature that collects and submits diagnostic data to Microsoft. Whenever a system encounters an application or component error, allowing it to improve its future updates, your system automatically activates WER. Every time in application crash, a system service fails the blue screen of death or BSOD occurs. A component hangs or becomes unresponsive. A hardware driver encounters errors system resource conflicts arise. While WER helps improve windows reliability, it can also raise privacy compliance or network traffic concerns, especially in enterprise environments. How to disable slash reenable Windows Air reporting WER in Windows 10 there are different tools you can use to disable or reenable WER on your Windows 10 system. Let's walk you through each one. The easiest way to disable or re-enable WER is through the Windows services console. Press win plus R to open the run dialogue and type in services MSC and hit enter to open the console, locate Windows Error Reporting Service. Right click properties under the general tab. Change the startup type to disabled to turn it off or automatic delayed. Start to re-enable it. Click stop if disabling or start if enabling, then apply. Okay. You can also use the group policy editor to configure WER. Press Win plus R and type in GP edit msc and hit enter to open the group policy editor. Navigate to computer configuration administrative templates, windows components, windows error reporting, double click disabled Windows error reporting Select enabled to turn off reporting or disabled slash not configured. To allow it, click apply. Then select. Okay. Advanced users can also configure WER through the registry. Press win plus R and type in Reg edit and hit enter. To open the registry editor, navigate to H Key local underscore machine software, Microsoft Windows, windows Error reporting. To turn off the service, right, click the right pane, select new D word 32 bit value. Then name the value disabled, And set its data to one. To re-enable the service, locate the disabled D word and set its value to zero or delete it entirely. Restart your computer to apply the changes. Learning how to configure WER is the key to ensuring your setup aligns with your organization's needs and goals. For more information of how to enable slash disabled Windows error reporting, check out our official blog post linked in the description below.